If you’ve already damaged your life in quiet solitude in Stardew Valley by inviting buddies to your homestead in the multiplayer beta, what the hey, invite everybody you realize. Two mods let farmers transcend the four-player restrict, every providing a barely totally different tackle mass farming. One lets you’ve as many farm fingers as you please, working the soil however not residing the life with a cabin of their very own. The different requires cabins for all, turning your farm right into a cute little Butlins for you and your buds.
The Ultiplayer mod by Platonymous lets the host invite as many buddies as they please, however “Farmhands don’t get a cabin, unless there happens to be a free cabin.” So a bit much less pally and a bit extra business-y. Back to work, peasants.
On the opposite hand, the Unlimited Players mod by “Armitxes” additionally removes Stardew Valley’s arduous cap on multiplayer farmers and cabins however requires you to construct a cabin for one another participant. Turn your farm into slightly neighborhood for everybody to dwell in peace, concord, and toil. Armitxes does observe that they may take away the cabin requirement, or a minimum of allow you to construct a load without delay, however for now you’ll want to deal with your staff.
Whichever you decide, you’ll want the SMAPI mod loader to play. Only hosts have to have the mod arrange, thoughts.
Both of those mods are nonetheless in testing, and Ultiplayer specifically warns that its farms may get busted and wiped. Stardew Valley’s multiplayer is itself nonetheless in beta too, in fact. There is potential for a lot wonk. But if you wish to have a load of buddies milling round your farm and adventuring collectively, that’s now an choice.
Stardew Valley’s multiplayer does appear pretty, providing a special tempo of life as different actual dwell folks take part, and particularly begin chatting. As Jay Castello told us:
“But where the game becomes electric is when your farmers are using a third-party voice chat. Without the level of concentration needed in other games, it allows for a calmer rhythm of conversation, interspersed with only the occasional cooperation needed to keep a farm running smoothly. But it also sets up a feel-good space where players aren’t under pressure, with no concerns about winning or losing. Combine that with the inherent comedy of another human-controlled player sprinting into view, barging past NPCs, with a vegetable held triumphantly over their head, and it explains just how much (and how hard) I ended up laughing throughout the two in-game seasons I barrelled through.”
Bless.
Ta to cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer for declaring Unlimited Players.
